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organization’s entire software portfolio.
The Board of Directors for the Virginia Tech – Montgomery Executive Airport has appointed Keith Holt as the new Airport Director. Holt assumed all responsibilities for airport operations in late July. Holt takes the reins from retiring Airport Director, Michael St. Jean, who has led the airport since 2002.
KlariVis, a proprietary data analytics software platform developed by bankers and headquartered in Roanoke, has hired Art Lucia has joined the company as its first-ever Chief Technology Officer. Lucia, also a co-founder of InfernoRed Technology based in Roanoke, has been leading the technology development of KlariVis since the Company's inception in February of 2019, as an outsourced consultant through InfernoRed Technology. "The evolution of t he product from just one year ago is phenomenal,” said Lucia in a new release.
Luna Innovations Incorporated, an advanced fiber optic-based technology, announced that Jane Bailey joined the company effective August 3, as Vice President, Marketing & Communications. Bailey will report to President and CEO Scott A. Graeff. Bailey is the former vice president, marketing for GE Digital, where she spent the last two decades of her career. Bailey was accountable for all global product marketing and customer advocacy functions for the
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WELLNESS FRONT Live, Work, Eat, Gather Inc. has hired Laina Schneider as Manager of Millstone Kitchen in Blacksburg. Schneider brings with
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her nearly ten years of sustainable food, agriculture, and restaurant kitchen experience to the shared kitchen facility. She has worked with both academic and private sector entities in the U.S. and abroad in Honduras and Nepal. Schneider holds a B.S. in Crop and Soil Environmental Science from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis. She succeeds Jessica Schultz, who returned to Pennsylvania to be closer to family. Dr. Philip Brown has joined Tuck Clinic at the SalemRoanoke Clinic Location. Brown earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from The University
of South Florida and then enrolled in Palmer College of Chiropractic in Port Orange. Brown practiced in Florida for three years before moving to Salem to join Tuck Chiropractic.
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Mary Dana Hinton became the thirteenth president of Hollins University on August 1. For six years prior Hinton served as the president of the College of Saint Benedict (Saint Ben’s) in Saint Joseph, Minnesota, and was named President Emerita upon her departure. Longtime former and then interim President Nancy Gray has stepped down after taking over the reins again a year ago following the departure of Pareena Lawrence.
